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0. A.'PPENN'ING. FASTENER FOR GLOVES, SHOES, &c.

No. 582,946. Patented May 18. 1897.

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CARL AUGUST PFENNIN G, OF BARMEN, GERMANY.

FASTENER FOR G LOVES, SHOES, 840.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,946, dated May 18, 1897.

Application filed July 31,1896. Serial No. 601,247. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 'nutg concern:

Be it known that I, CARL AUGUST PFEN- NING, a subject of the King of Prussia, residing at Barmen-Rittershausen, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Gloves, Shoes, and other Purposes,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fasteners particularly designed for gloves, but useful for other purposes, such as shoes, leggings, and the like, wherein each fastener is constructed with a housing or section containing a laterallyprojecting lever for the attachment of an operating cord or ribbon.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved fastening which can be secured in position in a simple and effectual manner.

To accomplish this object, my invention consists in the features of construction and in the combination or arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows enlarged a fastener housing or top partly in section. Fig. 2 shows the lever-housing lying underneath the material or flap. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the lever-housing, the covering-plate being removed. Fig, 4 is a side elevation of the covering-plate. Fig. 5 is a plan View of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 shows in natural size a part of a glove with four fasteners whose levers are connected by a cord. Fig. 7 is an inverted plan View of a modification. Figs. 8 and 9 show modifications by which the fasteners can be operated by the lever of the lowest or end fastener. Figs. 10 and 11 show a modified form of cord attachment.

The housing g, containing lever h, is connected by tube d with cap and is covered by plate 1). This plate is connected to the housing by lugs Z, Fig. 3, passed through slits or openings 0, Fig. 5, and clenched. The plate 19 has also at its edge penetrating prongs or projections i, which rise therefrom, as seen in Fig. 1, and are passed through the leather or materials and bent over or clenched on to the same. I

The housing g, comprising the plate 19, is provided with a tube d, having a contracted top portion d, which is closed at its upper extremity. In attaching the fastener the concompression of the closed end of the con 1 tracted part d shortens the distance between the cap 7.: and the plate 1) and obtains a firm connection of the parts. The housing 9 cannot rotate on the tube cl, because the prongs i securely hold the housing in a fixed position relatively to the tube (Z and the material 8, and consequently when the lever h is operated to release the fastening the housing is not liable to turn on the tube d. I

It is manifest that no opening can be effected by the pull of the cord if the fasteners have rotated to such a degree that the levers instead of being directed upward, as in the drawings, are inclined downward. If, however, the fasteners, as described, are firmly secured to the leather or material by the prongs, a rotation of the fastener-housings is impossible, and the several fasteners can at .all. times be properly opened by a pull of the cord.

To firmly connect the levers h with cord u, so that slipping or displacement of the cord in the several levers is impossible, each lever is provided with an eye or loop 7", Figs. 1, 2, and 3, formed by one or more upper shanks or bends r and lower bends T The cord u, as shown in Fig. 2, is inserted between the opposite loop parts, which latter at the proper relative position of the lever and cord are compressed or clamped onto the cord by a suitable tool or pliers. The cord, as seen in Fig. 1, is thus pressed flat, so that a secure and firm connection of the cord with the lever is attained. On a pull of the cord the lever end plays in the recess or out w in the housing-rim. On fastening or on pressing the fastener-top onto the head of the lower part the cord end of the lever must remain stationary, and to allow the lever projection '0, engaging a recess in the head, to properly recede on the upper fastener part being pressed into place the other end of the lever his also passed into a recess or out w in the housingrim.

To connect the end of the cord, a tube n,

Fig. 7, of sheet metal, is secured thereto, said tube having a prong or hook it engaging the cord and a hook n engaging an eye 7t in a lever.

The cord is secured to the lever ends at the inside of the glove or article, and if the cord is not to be extended out or is to remain eoneealed the lever of the lowest fastener can be extended and passed through a slit q, Fig. 8, in the material and provided with a handle or button 7L2. If the lowest lever is moved by this button or by means of chain or pull 718, Fig. 9, the cord to transfers motion to the several fasteners, so that all fasteners are freed at the same time.

Figs. 10 and 11 show a form of eye r for clamping cord 11, in which the upper bend '7" is separated at one side from the material of the lever, so as to form a lap or tongue which can be bent up, so that the cord can conveniently be laid into place or removed at one side of the tongue. To fasten the cord, the tongue is pressed into the opening of the lever. As compared with the closed lever-eye this arrangement just described has the advantage that the pull-eord can be readily removed from the fasteners and replaced by a new one. For this purpose it is only neces sary to open or bend the tongues upward, and after laying in the new cord to again bend or press the same to the lower branches Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A fastener for gloves and the like, consisting of a housing g having a pronged plate p and a central tube (1 formed with a contracted top portion (1 closed at its upper extremity, a cap-plate 7; against which the contracted, closed end of the tube is compressed and expanded laterally, a plate is secured to the inside of the eap'plate and engaged with the contracted part of the tube, and a swinging lever extending from the housing, said plate of the housing having its prongs constructed to engage the material of the glove and prevent rotation of the housing independent of the tube, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A glove-fastening, consisting of a tube having its upper end contracted and formed with a flat closed top, and a cap-plate 7o having an internal offset plate 70 forming a chamber or space between said plate and said cap, said contracted tube portion being adapted to pass through the plate and against the capplate and to be compressed into the space between the cap-plate and the said oilset plate, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL AUGUST PFENNING.

\Vitnesses:

I. Ron. Wiunncn, \Vom). llAUP'l. 

